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Originally posted by LeTharg:
.... It didn't matter if I tried to sweep the sector I was in or another sector. I must be doing something wrong.
Thinking that my empire had to know the mines existed I ran a ship into an enemy field and got it blown up. Then I tried to sweep it but nothing happened...
I have had that happen to me. At first, I thought 'bug' as you did. But then I double checked and found that I did not have a clear path to the sector I wanted to sweep - there was another minefield in a Warp Point that I HAD to go thru to get to the sector I wanted to sweep. Ships in SE4 (and 3 IIRC) will NOT go thru a known minefield unless specifically instructed to. IOW, you have to give the ship(s) orders to go to (or sweep) the first minefield, THEN go to the second and sweep. Once I did that, sweeping worked fine. This may be the case for you - it was for me.
Also, I think you may have to specifically designate the ship as a Mine Sweeper, but I'm not posistive - mine WAS designated a Mine Sweeper...
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Originally posted by suicide-junkie:
.... I suspect that the sats would not set off the mines, but any ships moving into the sector would set off the mines, and the sats would get attacked by the mines at that time...
Does that mean fighters don't set off mines also? IOW is triggering a mine only accomplished by Ships?? In the same question, will Bases trigger mines in combat? (I suspect not since they don't move..) Does anyone know exactly what triggers a mine? It's been a long time (and several patches) since I used mines, I can't really remember.
[This message has been edited by rdouglass (edited 11 May 2001).]